Murder Story of Wysokie Litewskie Jews in Ogrodniki

… The Germans perpetuated similar mass shootings of the innocent civilian population on May 22, 1942, near Ogorodniki [Ogrodniki] village, at the Pieszczany trench located 150 meters from Ogrodniki village. On that 70 (seventy) Jews people were taken from Vysokoye [Wysokie Litewskie] town and shot to death.

I saw how, in the fall of 1942, the German police took a truck of Jews and shot them in the Pieszczany trench near Ogorodniki [Ogrodniki] village. The shooting was carried out in the following way: the police pushed the Jews into the pit and then fired their machine-guns. I heard moans and screams and saw that some of them, who had not yet been killed, made various motions. I had to see this because some policemen forced us to dig pits for this shooting, and we were not far away from it (about ten steps from the pit). We were forced to dig those pits which we did. There were about two dozen shooting victims. Among them were old people and children. This was the part of the Jewish population that could not follow the main column that was taken to the station to be loaded onto a train. That is why they were shot here. Later, I saw that wild animals and pigs grabbed the bodies and threw them around. This happened because [we] were not permitted to cover the pit as it have been. It was large and only half full.